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I am addicted to light, and specifically, capturing it. I’ve become a compulsive amateur photographer.

This happened rather suddenly, though the roots went down a long time ago. In 1988, my father sent me off for a semester in India with his 1960s Ricoh 35mm. Complete with a hot-shoe-mounted light meter, that sweet little two pound metal beast accompanied me all over the world’s biggest democracy for four months. I took a ton of disposable tourist crap and a few well-composed and decently-metered shots. I had no idea what I was doing. I pretty much still don’t.

Fans of old-school turn-of-the-century rock journalism may want to check out the Cripsy’s Crawl Archive. Although it only contains a year and a half of the columns, it’s pretty good for a chuckle or two. The bands page shows a complete listing of all the acts I covered in that span, with links to articles that mention them. If you find a dead link, please let me know.

Charlton Heston is dead. Did anyone get his gun?

"The F.C.C. is only giving lip service to the 1st Amendment and the U.S. Constitution, because it is the servant of a government in which capitalism masquerades as democracy." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Do Republicans really eat their young?

"(the clergy) believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson

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Gaudiness is next to godliness, phonetically speaking.

"The music industry is a cruel and shallow money-trench. A long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side.” - Hunter S. Thompson

Spirituality without self-awareness ain’t worth a puddle of piss.

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” — George Washington

"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits--a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
-Hunter S. Thompson